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jb55 · 1w
not in any way that im aware of, other than using a different transcoder + cdn provider. I use bunny.net for hls vod transcoding +cdn but they don’t do livestream yet
walker · 1w
Charlie Kirk was a good man who encouraged *everyone* to speak freely and publicly debate ideas. He was assassinated while doing just that. He was 31 years old… Cut down in the prime of his life f...
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How are you defining him a a good man exactly?

Kirk called for journalist Mehdi Hasan to be deported and deplatformed over his views.
Kirk’s TPUSA put professors on a public watchlist, sometimes merely for expressing political opinions.
Kirk advocated using state power to suppress critical-race-related teaching.
He supported speech-related consequences for some non-American students and residents.
He welcomed opponents at his debates, but he was not a consistent free-speech absolutist.
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Chazstr · 1w
Telling women who are raped by their father and going through a pregnancy that could kill them that they are unable to have an abortion to save their life and need to have the kid is pure evil.
jb55 · 12w
loop as in not needing to prompt. Just setting up repeatable processes like “check issue board and work on stuff” that runs on a cron. claude has /loop for this but haven’t tried it yet
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pi:

Concerns I noticed:

- llm-agents.nix adds a large dependency graph to the lockfile.
- It includes many agent packages, but we did not install them all.
- Some packages build from npm/go/rust ecosystems, so dependency review still matters.
- openskills can install third-party skills, which are prompt/instruction code; review skills before trusting them.
- fence/srt improve isolation but are not magic. Misconfigured policies can still allow file/network access.
- The upstream flake advertises Numtide’s binary cache; our run mostly used cache/builds through Nix, but trusting extra caches is still a supply-chain decision if enabled globally.

Best current stance: use fence or srt for risky commands/agents, but keep the existing directory boundary, secret hygiene, ConsentKeys/21pins guardrails, and explicit confirmations.pi
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jb55 · 12w
isn’t this all slop though? all these concerns are true of any package manager.
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I didn't realize when I started ideasmeetings.org ~20 years ago that ideas are like a muscle, they're worth stretching. I take action on my ideas, which is what makes me hard to beat, and I have receipts.

Today, I installed nixos on my laptop, replacing debian. (I'm still friends with FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Tails, and Qubes, and have never used Windows, FL/OSS FTW).

I've run
$ sudo nixos-rebuild switch
more than you today.

The rest of this post, is how you become a power user of AI using free and open source software on top of the tools you use today:

https://krisconstable.com/start-with-pidev/

I installed pi.dev, I did /login to a subscription (not API) and when got my precious pi prompt (I'll use ** for my prompts you can copy/paste):

** I am new to nixos, and using it here. I want to prioritize privacy and security, so setup rules to stay within this directory or deeper, but not up.

[I didn't read the response, ready for my next prompt]

** Let's follow https://krisconstable.com/pi-dev-skills-and-memory/ and https://krisconstable.com/start-with-pidev/ as this guy seems legit

[I really typed that jaja]

pi> I intentionally chose the safer “copy the pattern” route first: workflow discipline + local memory + optional browser automation later. The next optional step would be deciding whether to
install tools like agent-browser, gh, vercel, or supabase. Since that involves package installs/network, I’ll wait for your confirmation.

** install 'em
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jb55 · 12w
I use this on nixos. works great https://github.com/numtide/llm-agents.nix